As Bob noted here, putting the gummint in charge of these kinds of efforts leads only to heartbreak. Of course, it's literally "your tax dollars at work," since "[t]he Congressional Budget Office predicts that by 2019, about 24 million people will have insurance through exchanges, with four-fifths of them getting federal subsidies that average $6,400 a year per person." [emphasis added]

Let's do some simple math, shall we?

Eighty percent ("four-fifths") of 24 million is about 19 million souls. At $6,400 a pop, that's over 12 billion in taxpayer subsidies. Something about "robbing Peter...?"

I'd perhaps feel better about how this will all work out if it weren't for the fact that the whole shebang was conceived, and is being implemented, by folks like this.

As Bob noted here, putting the gummint in charge of these kinds of efforts leads only to heartbreak. Of course, it's literally "your tax dollars at work," since "[t]he Congressional Budget Office predicts that by 2019, about 24 million people will have insurance through exchanges, with four-fifths of them getting federal subsidies that average $6,400 a year per person." [emphasis added]

Let's do some simple math, shall we?

Eighty percent ("four-fifths") of 24 million is about 19 million souls. At $6,400 a pop, that's over 12 billion in taxpayer subsidies. Something about "robbing Peter...?"

I'd perhaps feel better about how this will all work out if it weren't for the fact that the whole shebang was conceived, and is being implemented, by folks like this.